The invention relates to a method for preparing ultrafine platy copper-zinc alloy powder by using a horizontal stirring and grinding method, belonging to the technical field of preparation of metal powder material. The method comprises the steps of: mixing the copper-zinc alloy powder, grinding media and various grinding aids, putting the mixture into a sealed grinding bin of a horizontal high-energy stirring machine, introducing a protective atmosphere which mainly contains inert gas such as nitrogen and argon and the like, introducing water or oil with the temperature of 15-100 DEG C into a water cooling sleeve of a ball milling machine, controlling the rotating speeds at different stages, grinding, dispersing, modifying and grading the alloy powder to finally obtain copper alloy powder with the meshes of minus 300. In the method, the annealing process of the traditional method is abolished, and proper grinding process parameters are adopted, and the method has the advantages of short production process, high production efficiency, stable process and the like, and the prepared powder material has good platy effect and surface performance. The method also can be used for zinc-aluminum mixing ball milling and the production of powder such as zinc-aluminum alloy powder and the like, in which the degree of oxidation needs to be controlled.